After assembling over 330 photos in my stuffed-to-the-gills Food & Cooking 2015 album, an new year has rolled around, so a new album has been created to display all of my photographic culinary delights for 2016.

Although they were not the first food pictures I took this year, the first ones to make it into this album were the four I took at The Observatory, in the Monta­villa neighborhood of eastern Portland, Oregon, in March. There I had a goat-​cheese lamb burger, fries with red chili pepper aioli sauce, and a Portland-brewed beer. This meal was a feast for the eyes (and camera!), as well as for the taste buds!

Stay tuned ... 2016 just might end up with as many food and cooking photos as action-packed 2015! For more food photography, be sure to take a look at the Food & Cooking (All Years) album. Not only does it contain all of the photos in this album, but also food pictures from previous years.

For further details about the stories behind the photos in this al­bum, see the related articles: